Older sibling sleep woes

My ODD is 20 months and REFUSING to nap or sleep. She’s always been a dream sleeper! 12 hours a night and 2 plus hour naps. She’s slept in her own crib since 4 months. Now we are up more with her than the newborn! My husband has been sleeping on the couch with her. And I’ve been the only one taking care of the baby at night.

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Exactly the same here! ODS is 24 months but he’s been waking up too much in the last about 3 months 😔 now that lo is here I completely gave up on sleep training & he sleeps with dh (dear husband) in our bed & I sleep with lo in guest room 😢 i miss my bed & miss my husband

My two year old is the same. Fighting naps, waking up screaming, won't go down at night. He's always been a little challenging but at about 10 months it got so much better. No advice, just solidarity 😊

Same here! Daughter is 23 months and usually goes to bed great but last night she took over an hour to fall asleep and then woke up at 5 crying so my husband had to go rock with her while I was on the couch with LO. She has always been a bit of a challenge with naps but now seems especially difficult. If we rock her she will take a 2+ hour nap but with a newborn who has time for that!!

Exactly the same here! ODS is 24 months but he’s been waking up too much in...

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02/04/2018

Exactly the same here! ODS is 24 months but he’s been waking up too much in the last about 3 months 😔 now that lo is here I completely gave up on sleep training & he sleeps with dh in our bed & I sleep with lo in guest room 😢 i miss my bed & miss my husband

I’ve been in our bedroom with our new baby and he’s been on the couch with our older daughter. But last night I’m like.... oh helllll no, I’m sleeping down here with you on the couch, you’re not sleeping thru the night! So we had our first family of 4 slumber party 😂

Same here! Daughter is 23 months and usually goes to bed great but last night...

Posted
02/04/2018

Same here! Daughter is 23 months and usually goes to bed great but last night she took over an hour to fall asleep and then woke up at 5 crying so my husband had to go rock with her while I was on the couch with LO. She has always been a bit of a challenge with naps but now seems especially difficult. If we rock her she will take a 2+ hour nap but with a newborn who has time for that!!

I didn’t expect to have more sleep issues from my oldest! My newborn is sleeping longer in the night than she is! Oy!! Hope it works out for you mama!

My son (23 months) was the same way...and he is in a toddler bed so could get up had always gone down easy and slept for 12 hrs. Now he didn’t want to go down and woke up a few times in the night and up for the morning at 5:30.

I read a few articles and everything said to be consistent. Which is so hard with the new baby. Even though we were exhausted, we made a point of putting him back to bed over and over in the night. It was really hard when all I wanted to do was put on accretion and let him stay in our bed. But, within 2 weeks of putting him back he is now sleeping through the and waking up closer to 7 (his usual). I would recommend trying that. Although it was horrible for two weeks, I’m happy to have my good sleeper back.

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